Wayfinder

== Description ==

Most redirect plugins are a list you have to remember to add to. Wayfinder reads the 404 log, groups requests by the URL that produced them, and proposes a target based on slug similarity and the post that used to live there. You accept or you dismiss; it does not redirect anything on its own.

Redirects are stored in their own table and matched before WordPress runs its own guess-the-URL logic, which is the step that turns a missing page into a slow, wrong one. Matching is a single indexed lookup, so an install with 9,000 rules costs the same as one with nine.

Import and export are plain CSV with a documented header row, because the two times you need this plugin most are the week before a migration and the week after.

== Screenshots ==

Numbered the way they ship in /assets/. Click any one to see it full width.

== Installation ==

• Install and activate the plugin.
• Leave the 404 log running for a week under real traffic.
• Review the suggestions under Tools → Wayfinder and accept the ones that are right.

Nothing redirects until you accept it. There is no automatic mode and there will not be one.

== Frequently asked questions ==

Does it slow down 404s?

It replaces core’s redirect_canonical guess with one indexed query, so 404s get faster, not slower.

Can it handle regular expressions?

Yes, on a separate tab, evaluated after exact matches fail. Exact matches cover about 95% of real cases and cost far less.

What happens to the log?

Entries older than 90 days are pruned nightly. The window is configurable and the pruning is logged.

== Changelog ==